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A man's past calls to him as he relives his successes and his mistakes Benjamin Federov has lived a thoroughly American life. The son of immigrants, husband to a lovely wife, and father to two healthy sons, he is successful in business, and blessed with good health. During a lazy 1964 summer afternoon at his son's baseball game, Ben reminisces on the triumphs and failures of his past fifty years. He recalls the comedy of his youth and the horrors...
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Imagine being happily married for 28 years. You have three children, a lovely house and a husband who travels a lot - but even after all this time, you still love each other. Or: imagine being happily married for 17 years. You have one daughter, a lovely home and though your husband travels a lot, you still love each other passionately. Then one day you get a call that turns your world upside down: your husband is dead. You are devastated. You go...
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"A richly-told debut novel of one woman's journey to her grandmother's home in Greece, where the past and present collide and a fateful decision must be made"--
The daughter of Greek immigrants, Daphne aspires to the American Dream, yet feels as if she's been sleepwalking through life since her husband's death. Only her beloved grandmother on Erikousa, an island off the coast of Greece, knows her heart. Daphne's fondest memories are of times spent...
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A mentally ill artist dies, leaving behind an acclaimed body of work and a dark legacy, in this bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club pick Gifted, troubled painter Rachel Kelly lived a life of manic highs and suicidal lows. When Oxford postgraduate Antony Middleton met her, she was pregnant and dangerously depressed. Her marriage to the gentle, devout Quaker became her safe haven, where she was free to create and be herself. But now, after her sudden...
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"When a volcano collapses in the ocean and generates a tidal wave of biblical proportions, the world disappears around Louie, his parents and his eight siblings. Their house, perched on a summit, stands firm. As far as the eye can see there is only choppy grey water. For six days the family waits for relief, as food becomes scarce. Then the water starts to rise again, and the parents realize they must make for the highlands. There isn't room, however,...
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Past and present collide in this heartfelt novel of love and loss from the National Book Award–winning author of A Wrinkle in Time. After the tragic death of her son and the seeming collapse of her marriage, Charlotte Napier flees to Portugal in the hopes of finding guidance from her mentor: her mother-in-law, Violet. Instead, she finds solace in the letters of Mariana Alcoforado, a seventeenth-century nun. Charlotte and Mariana's stories may...
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What provokes one child down a dangerous path, while her cousin takes a less tortuous direction in life? A mere six months apart in age, the girls were born near the end of World War Two, when a war tragedy set the stage for Ginger Drake's calamitous life. Ginger's 'sister at heart', cousin Glory Clayborne, has all she can do to protect the incorrigible Ginger from herself, to say nothing of the many evils lying in wait.
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"Where's the youngster? Grant asked. "Church," Derek answered. "Between that and St. Benedict's I'll make a priest out of him yet." Priest! The word flung into Devlyn's brain and buried itself there. He could not believe his ears. A priest! I don't want to be a priest. He remembered that St. Benedict's was a seminary as well as a boarding school. He was thunderstruck. A priest, for Pete's sake!
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Life is never straightforward. Lizzie is fast approaching 50. Her once angst-ridden teenage daughters have flown the nest: Cassie to London and Maisy to Australia. And, although Connor, Lizzie's teenage son, is now on his own tormented passage to adulthood, his quest to get there is a far quieter journey than that of his sisters. The hard years, Lizzie believes, are behind her. But, things are never quite as black and white as them seem... A visit...
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A search to find her parents becomes a quest that shakes Jamie Bridger's identity to its core. Raised by her grandparents, fourteen-year-old Jamie Bridger has never known who her parents are. When she presses for details, her grandmother protests that she doesn't remember things that happened years ago, and her grandfather reacts by flying into a rage. But who could forget the birth of their only grandchild? And how could a mother give up her baby...
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"The right thing never just happens; you have to make it happen." Morgan knows her parents left her in boarding school so they could travel the world, which is why hardly anything changes when they're killed in an accident during her freshman year at Fairfield. But every orphan needs a guardian, and Morgan's is her uncle Tom, a famous and somewhat eccentric author. Tom's New York City apartment has plenty of space for Morgan, and her room is the nicest...
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Abandoned by her mother, Olivia Greene decides to take care of herself-if only she can keep it a secret Life's been strange for Olivia Greene ever since her mother, Luna Lee, went to the store for margarine and never came back. Afraid of being sent to live with her terrible uncle-or worse, his children-Olivia carries out elaborate schemes to convince the people of Kumquat that Luna Lee still lives at home. Absolutely no one can find out-except, of...
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It seemed the ocean had always been part of his life…in St. Yves, France, in Southampton, New York, and here in California, north of Morro Bay. He loved the colors of the sunset. He mused. How do I see, people wonder, and how do I explain? On some days I see fairly clearly and on those days, I take out Jean-Marie's picture and Jennifer's. I study them and I study Johanna and the children and sometimes Johanna asks," Jef, why are you looking...
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Cuando Reece, un niño de siete años, llega a casa de Cathy en régimen de acogida, ya ha pasado por otras cuatro familias. Ha sido expulsado de varios colegios por su comportamiento agresivo y alborotador.
Cathy quiere encontrar los motivos del alarmante comportamiento del niño, pero él no cuenta nada porque su madre le hizo jurar que guardaría el secreto. Cuando el trabajador social que lleva el caso de Reece recaba información para la vista...
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In ten years, Jessie will be twenty-seven-but her sister Helen will always be eighteen. Jessie's not ready to move on. Everyone says she's doing great, but she is drowning in grief and hiding it with her characteristic wisecracks. Why tell anyone? It's not like it will bring Helen back. Jessie can see that her whole family is barely treading water: Her brother Lucas has completely shut down, and her parents are just going through the motions of life....
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Winner of the prestigious The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award.
'Lyrical, gritty and compelling . . .a story of haunted truth-seeking.' CAROLINE OVERINGTON, The Australian
'A skilfully written, insightful novel . . . absorbing and a pleasure to read.' HSU-MING TEO, previous winner of The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award for Love and Vertigo
'Compelling and original.' KATE ADAMS, bookseller
How can we know the truth of our own lives? This...
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Every night, Zack is plagued by bizarre recurring nightmares-what if his dream world is trying to tell him something? Zack has never fit in with the rest of his family, and for as long as he can remember, he has experienced strange nightmares of a shadowy man. His therapist, Nancy, says these dreams are his subconscious mind's way of trying to reveal something, but Zack isn't so sure. After all, what could nightmares filled with tigers and apple orchards...
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A Perfect Husband is a story of family, of secrets, of love, lust, trust, deceit, and of sisters and promises set in a small desert town in California and in the lush green and also snowy small city of Appleton, Wisconsin. Will a change of scenery right a wrong? Or will it forever haunt and torment?
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In this "well-crafted, atmospheric" war novel set in ancient Rome, an officer battles under Constantine while in the midst of personal turmoil.(Ben Kane, author of Fields of Blood)
The Roman Empire is on the brink of civil war. Only Maxentius, tyrant of Rome, stands between the emperor Constantine and supreme power in the west. Aurelius Castus is now a tribune in Constantine's army. But great honor brings new challenges: Castus is tormented...
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